Tag Archives: Site Prospecting

One of the elements of keeping a franchise growing is selecting successful sites: Learn how to select a winning site location!!! In an issue of Esri News for Business, a case study talks about how GIS and location intelligence is used, in-house, to keep the Great Harvest Bread Company, a franchise with 220 units in…

Last year the Colorado Legislature passed two bills to fund an Economic Gardening (EG) pilot in Colorado. GeoWize, national experts in Economic Gardening, will be working with the Colorado Small Business Development Center (See article) to provide Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis services to the client companies in the pilot. The pilot will be managed…

I recently received a copy of an interview with Al Ricks, the commercial Realtor for Vom Fass, written by Toni Jakovec. See the attached article. In this interview Al discusses how he helps the Vom Fass franchisees site prospect for the right location. In the article, Al also discusses the measures of market potential that…

Welcome to our new and improved website. I believe that you will find it much more dynamic and relevant to providing GIS (Geographic Information Services) to small businesses to help them achieve a higher level of success.

Nancy Lanard from Spadea, Lanard, & Lignana, Attorneys at Law, posted the following article on due diligence for franchisees: http://www.spadealaw.com/blog/2012/07/18/due-diligence-prospective-franchisees?goback=.gde_67633_member_135863231. Here is my reply posting: Nancy, Your comments are absolutely “right on” when it comes to selecting a franchisor. Once a franchisee selects the “right” retail, B2C franchisor, there is a very important next step…

Over the past six years of supporting small business entrepreneurs with GIS , I have found that most entrepreneurs really have no clue about the power of GIS for small business success. No wonder! for years, GIS has been the secret weapon of big business. Although we can try to educate each small business owner,…

Here is a reprint of site location considerations from www.toolkit.com/small_business_guide. Some of these factors need to be assessed during an on-site visit, but a majority of them can only be discovered using geospatial information analysis. An important factor in selecting a location is that you keep a long-term perspective. Site selection can be a big…

Hi everyone: I’m speaking at GITA’s 2010 Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference in Phoenix, AZ, on 4/27/2010, from 3:15-4:00 p.m. at the Phoenix Convention Center in Room N226B. I hope you can make it to my presentation. I’ve pasted the abstract below, and here’s a link to the main conference page: http://www.gita.org/gis. You can navigate to…

The best way to be successful with your business is by selecting a successful site: Learn how to select a winning site location!!! It used to be that the big guys (Target, Walmart, McDonald’s, Walgreens, etc.) were the only ones that could afford to use business demographics and GIS (Geospatial Information Systems) for finding successful sites…

Collaboration is a powerful tool! It is an example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. In the Commercial Special Interest Group, we were discussing the need to create vertically oriented tools in Business Analyst to solve specific business problems for different industries. One solution was to rely and expect ESRI to accomplish…

“Your intimate knowledge of GIS software and datasets and your ability to provide in depth charts, maps and tables for use with local businesses has been sterling. You bring unparalleled corporate sophistication to small, growing companies around the country. I believe you are pioneering a whole new market for GIS services. Thanks a bunch.”

“Wayne prepared and coordinated a collaborative presentation that was delivered to our Executive Vice President and a group of vice presidents representing Legal, Compliance, and Public Policy. By the end of the meeting, the analysis project was approved and fully funded.”

- Jeff Hubbard
Director
Qwest Technical Regulatory

Jeff Hubbard

When I first heard of GeoWize I thought, “Why would I need a Google Map for marketing?” Wow! Was I blown away with the research, data, and most importantly, insight. This insight has caused us to revamp our entire marketing strategy. And we’re already seeing results. I don’t know where we’d be without it.
Reflective Group completely overhauled their marketing strategy based on the insight gained from GeoWize. Reflective Group expects to hire 9 new employees and triple revenue to $1,400,000 in 2014.

Mike Bosch, CEO, President Reflective Group

Mike Bosch

“Wayne is dependable and dedicated. He learned a lot about our business and through these insights was able to drive tremendous informational value out of a relatively modest amount of customer and store data.
I would not hesitate to engage Wayne and GeoWize to support corporate planning processes through demographic mapping and similar analytical tools. His broad business knowledge, dependable service and insights of demographic information as well as ESRI software added value to our projects and reflected well on our studies and presentations.”